A 60's Lie

As the story goes

No one really knows

How hard it was back in the day

 

A young girl

In a grown up world

Careful of the words to say

 

Looking for love

to come from above

pushed and passed around

 

Thinking she had it made

only to be kept in the shade

Ashamed of what she found

 

Stepped up was a man

who vowed to take her hand

but she would have no part of it

 

Thinking of what he had created

He was all too elated

for her the shoe didn't fit

 

But she played on the lie

that only she knew why

even gave the child his name

 

Was it done out of hate

could the child relate

for her it was all the same

 

She knew the truth

forcing the child to be a sleuth

He needed to know

 

Giving him bits and pieces

in fits of grief and releases

On his own journey he would go

 

And when he found the answers

after many romancers

he felt himself back in the womb

 

Why would she neglect

a creation of disrespect

unlocking his soul from a tomb

 

Love, pain and compassion

though rage in every fashion

Years they both lived a lie

 

Now a woman who kept going

harboring secrets well worth knowing

Whose heart was it allowed to cry

 

 

Reviews

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. i would have no empathy for such a person ... but yes, i'd be saddened ... not by her tears ... they would mean nothing to me ... but yes, her sheer cynicism ... leading to fascism ... it's nothing but fascism to deny people the truth ... it's simply not on ... and there can be no justification for it ... that's also how i feel about my absconding soul mate in a sense ... he has silenced me ... i'm hardly able to talk most of the times ... except with em ... but i type ... and i'll type and i'll type ... and i'll type ... and i'll type ... till he and people like him get that lies are fascist outbursts ... how can they not give a person a chance to know the truth ... and to live it ... just because they are in a position to withhold information ...

. but anyway, this is an out and out masterpiece ... and possibly one of my favourites from you ... top 7 may be ... might have displaced another poem ...

[stellasautelle]

Love it! flows very nicely. word choice is very good.